#OH CANADA!! OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND!

[stromer]

there can never be a drama free canucks vs leafs game ever and for that i am extremely grateful! GO CANADA!!!!!

[teledyn]

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I knew we'd make the grade sooner or later! Thank you juicemedia for doing our troubled news agencies' work for them so they don't have to feel they've been impolite!

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[uraniumgeranium]

Its only a Canadian tuxedo if its from the true North strong and free, otherwise it's just a sparkling joutfit.

[sgiandubh]

Miss Canada and Canada Day

Dear 'Oh Canada, Our Home and Native Land' Anon,

I, too, wiped a fond, sentimental tear, while being reminded it was Canada Day today. Such beautiful personal memories of a totally impromptu Sweet Sixteen party, somewhere in Nova Scotia!

Ahem. Back to our monotheme, I hope you also noticed the MPC logo on top of the perfunctory 'Happy [insert country name here] Day':

The layout gave me airline magazine, not harem vibes, Anon. And yes, I know once upon a time June Brunette was Miss Universe Canada. In 2006.

Who the hell remembers Sarah and Lauren, anymore? Thinking of The Brazilian Fan who could have sworn her little💘out that she saw an organic couple having lunch on that Fateful London Afternoon. And then proceeded to publish a lengthy Shipper Insult 101 for everyone to see (https://www.tumblr.com/sgiandubh/750212524028362752/five-minutes-of-instagram-fame). I hope she really felt reality bite and her looking like the Global Fool she really is, now.

Oh, how the mighty quickly fall to oblivion! Who remembers Purse Holding S, @ Hyrox London, anymore? Who remembers the rabid Anons, demanding to know where Scottish Xena was, and with whom and why?

*crickets*

And for all of the above, in the unforgettable South Park parlance...

I have to say, it's spot on, at times. At least until The Next UFO hits the fandom with renewed hysteria and collective amnesia, that is.

[girlactionfigure]

naomiygal

Today is Canada Day.  Judy Weinstein is the only Canadian still being held hostage in Ga&a. Our Canadian government must bring back Judy’s beloved body to rest. Canada is a strong country. We are also a welcoming country- as we have seen with @justinpjtrudeauwelcoming refugees into Canada with open arms.  I ask you, Mr Prime Minister, as a Canadian Citizen, what are you doing to bring back Judy’s body for burial. For her Canadian children and grandchildren to have a place to honor and visit their grandmother.  Oh, Canada.  Judy’s home and native land.  Please if you can not treat Judy as the Canadian citizen she is. Treat her as a refugee.  Just bring her back.

[suicideenthusiast]

Oh Canada 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 our home and native land

[asiogie]

GOOD MORNING ASIA WE WON

OH CANADA OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND

[angelhairpastawithherbs]

oh Canada our home and native land

haru

[haruhar-u]

oh Canada our home and native land true patriot love in all of us command with glowing hearts we see the rise of the true North strong and free from far and wide oh Canada we stand on guard for thee god keep our land glorious and free oh Canada we stand on guard for thee

[showfallfoodcourtemployee]

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[riverdamien]

American Heroes!

Philippians 4:6-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

6 Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about[a] these things. 9 As for the things that you have learned and received and heard and noticed in me, do them, and the God of peace will be with you.

    Some key virtues that made Elizabeth Ann Seton, a great saint and (unofficial saints)  Martin Luther King Jr., and Sister Helen Prejean happen to be American ideals.  On July 4th, it’s good to remember what those American virtues are, because they stem from the Declaration of Independence.

    As Pope Francis put it when he spoke at Independence Hall in 2015, “The history of this nation is also the tale of a constant effort, lasting to our own day, to embody those lofty principles.”

All three were and are pioneers, willing to go outside what’s comfortable.

    Americans—from the Native peoples who lived on what God’s providence provided to the settlers and immigrants who came from distant lands—have always been people who journey and build.

        In recent years we've celebrated anniversaries that show this willingness on our part—75 years since we went to Normandy; 50 years since we went to the moon. There have also been anniversaries of American business pioneers: pop art innovator Marvel Comics turned 80 and fashion brand The Gap turned 50.

    Elizabeth Ann Seton’s, Martin Luther King Jr.'s, and Sr. Helen Prejean's lives are marked by this same willingness to journey and create. 

    At age 29, St. Elizabeth left New York for Italy, and that led to her conversion to Catholicism upon her return. At age 31, she started a school for young women in New York. At age 34 she was ready to leave the country for Canada but went to Baltimore instead. From there, she settled a year later in Emmitsburg, Maryland, where she founded the first free school for girls run by Catholic Sisters, and the first congregation of women religious founded in the United States, as well.

    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the leader of the Civil Rights movement that began the journey to equality for all minority citizens; Sr. Helen Prejean is presently leading a movement to abolish the death penalty, a movement of life and healing. Both left the safety of the status quo and have moved onto the line of the margins.

    That also shows another American virtue.

St. Elizabeth Ann, Dr. King, and Sr. Helen have the American ability to turn a “land of exile” into a home.

    Americans are also people of exile. The first Europeans who moved here were all fleeing something—religious persecution, political despotisms, and economic dead ends. Ironically, of course, we turned American Indians’ native land into a land of exile for them as we expanded west.

    Religious pilgrims understand living in exile. We long for “that blessed fatherland from which we are all exiles,” while we call down blessings on our earthly homes.

Especially after her conversion to Catholicism, Elizabeth understood how America was both her home and a place of exile.

“Oh joy joy joy a Captain B will take us to America!” she wrote when planning to return home from Italy. Her daughter, she said, was “wild with joy'— yet often whispers to me ‘Ma is there no Catholics in America? Ma won’t we go to the Catholic Church when we go home?’”

Years after becoming Catholic, she still found herself a stranger in her homeland. “I am gently, quietly and silently a good Catholic,” she wrote. “The rubs, etc., are all past … only a few knotty hearts that must talk of something — and the worst they say is ‘so much trouble has turned her brain.’ Well … I kiss my Crucifix which I have loved for so many years and say they are only mistaken.”

    Martin Luther King Jr. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"; and Sr. Helen continues to live out: "I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it; I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it; I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up living my prayer."

    Being American allowed all three to change their identities.

    Changing identities has become a cliché—from Taylor Swift’s new personae on every new album to our own new personas in our profile pictures. But there is also a praiseworthy aspect to this flexibility.

    Forging yourself anew with no foundations comes from rootlessness or narcissism. Forging yourself anew in Christ comes from authentic freedom and humility.

    The virtue of daily conversion requires that we stretch our definition of ourselves, getting rid of what holds us back from Christ. St. John Paul II called this “becoming who you are.”

Elizabeth, of course, embraced conversion in her own life. She went from Episcopalian to Catholic, from wife and mother to religious sister, from sister to Mother, from Mother to foundress.

    Dr. King left the security and prestige of being a Black pastor, to one who proclaimed justice for all; Sr. Helen went from simply being a praying nun, to a nun on her feet fighting for true justice in seeking to abolish the death penalty.

    All of these are very Christian and American. As John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

    Self-government only works for moral people who can improve themselves and don’t require others to intervene.

St. Elizabeth Ann, Dr. King, and Sr. Helen are big thinkers.

    Americans have always had a genius for thinking bigger and bolder, from the desire to build a new nation from scratch in the wilderness, to modern America where everything is big compared to the rest of the world: Our houses are bigger, our washing machines are bigger, and our stores are bigger. This is a mixed blessing. Thinking big often shows a lack of humility and an insensitivity to the weak and vulnerable.      

    But Christianity and other religious expressions are a beautiful marriage of the big and the small. The same reality enlivens the strive for justice in our Capitols, and serving in soup kitchens and on the streets.

    Thinking small, but focused on the immensity of God, lands us in a big place. St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s Little Way leads to big change. Small contributions have led to changes in civil rights for all and in all contributions to the homeless.

    St. Elizabeth Ann embraced this paradox. a“We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity,” she said. “This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.”

Her formula was simple: “The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God;” she wrote, “secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”

So, how to sum up St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Sister Helen Prejean?

    They have adventurous spirits, they made a home in hard circumstances, “became all things to all” for Christ, and have left a giant legacy. They embodied many of the best virtues of being American, and all three American citizens. Deo Gratias! Thanks be to God!

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"Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the landscape can be between the regions of kindness. How you ride and ride thinking the bus will never stop, the passengers eating maize and chicken will stare out the window forever. Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho lies dead by the side of the road. You must see how this could be you, how he too was someone who journeyed through the night with plans and the simple breath that kept him alive. Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing. You must wake up with sorrow. You must speak to it till your voice catches the thread of all sorrows and you see the size of the cloth. Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, only kindness that ties your shoes and sends you out into the day to gaze at bread, only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say It is I you have been looking for, and then goes with you everywhere like a shadow or a friend. — Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness”

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PRAYER

THAT ALL PEOPLE—BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS-UNITE IN PROCLAIMING THE TRUTH

OF THE NONVIOLENT JESUS AND HIS WAY OF NONVIOLENT LOVE OF

FRIENDS AND ENEMIES.

Abba, in the name of Jesus

we ask you to send the Holy Spirit

to gather the Churches together,

so that with one heart, one mind, and one voice

they may proclaim as God’s Way

Jesus’ Way of Nonviolent Love of all people

—friends and enemies—

and thereby proclaim that

violence is not the Christian Way,

violence is not the Holy Way,

violence is not the Gospels’ Way,

violence is not the Apostolic Way,

violence is not the Way of Jesus,

violence is not the Way of God,

and thus set Christians free forever

from bondage to the unholy,

unapostolic, un-Christlike ways

of the false gods and theologies

of violence and enmity.

We plead this grace

so that the Nonviolent Lamb

may be our Lord in deed,

as well as, in word and sacrament.

We request this gift

so that the Christian Community may be

—for afflicted humanity—

a faithful witness to Jesus’ Way of overcoming evil.

We implore this healing

so that the Church may be an authentic extension in time and space

of the Way of the Lamb of God, of the Way of the Nonviolent Jesus,

which is the Way to renew the face of the earth and to Eternal Salvation for each and all.

Our Lamb has conquered! Let us follow Him!

SAME ENERGY!

Put me in jail, then. Throw me behind your religious bars since you have dubbed me a breaker of your law. I live my days in the courtroom of your criticism. I move unbothered under the gaze of your gavel. I have no interest in defending myself before your bench. Go on, clench your fists, raise your voice to make your point. Type the rebuke that you must make on my page. Who asked you to come through anyway? Is this rage your duty? We operate under a different set of obligations and get worked up to frustration for different reasons, even though we both claim fidelity to God. If you were interested, which I doubt, here is where my passion lies: feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, defend the rights of the orphan, plead the widow’s cause, and woe to you who unjustly enforce God’s Law. Why spend your energy policing me when that same energy could be used to love, fiercely? Justice, mercy, and humility. Go learn what this means. Drew Jackson

[sohannabarberaesque]

Postcards from Snagglepuss

And Myrtle Beach goes Canadian!

Heavens to the Dionne Quintuplets ... it happens to be no less than that mid-winter spectacle of the Grand Strand, otherwise known as Canada Week, coincident with the Winter Halfterm Schools Break Week in Ontario, and probably Quebec, even! And if it's all the same to you, gentle fan and Old Hanna-Barberian, that oh-so-merry, chuckleberry even, Huckleberry Hound and yours truly are not just continuing our winter's sojourn here on the Grand Strand, but also using the opportunity to "meet-and-greet" the many Canadian fans and old friends of ours!!

Even though, admittedly, the Canadian Broadcorping Castration, and its commercial rivals, CTV and Global, has been under Canadian Government pressure to include more Canadian material on the box, in the interest of "promoting Canadian cultural identity," or so the patsy from Ottawa hath it ... but still, Teletoon Retro, the Canadian equivalent of the old Boomerang here stateside, can sometimes air the old Hanna-Barbera schtick.

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"O Canada! Our Home and Native Land!" ... and all that jazz!

And you just couldn't believe all the Canadian number plates on the cars of visitors, especially from Ontario and Quebec, and maybe a few from the Maritimes, on the South Carolina coast ... and trying to find one as doesn't overdo it on the Canadian equivalent of a "vanifesto" in its sheer tackiness of prolefeeding along Ocean Boulevard!

But still, with Canada Week on, many Canadians of an older generation couldn't resist spotting our presence as unofficial ambassadors of The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera, and even posing for selfies to share back in Hamilton ... Etobicoke ... Parry Sound ... St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, even! (Oh, and let's not forget Sault Ste. Marie; we can't forget Sault Ste. Marie....)

And for some reason, Canadians can't resist the old donuts and coffee as a stimulant to get through the day, caffeine and sugar in a somewhat quixotic energy boost--even if it's more likely to be Dunkin rather than that Canadian stalwart, Tim Horton's. In fact, a middle-age couple from somewhere near the Ontario Cottage Country stumbled upon us in a Myrtle Beach coffee shop early one morning, sharing donuts and coffee--and a couple of Nanaimo Bars (which, know, are named for the town of their creation--Nanaimo, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island even!)--as well as some conversation most unpredictable. Which, for some reason, had to include a French-Canadian wolf by name of Loopy De Loop.

"The whom," as I explained it, "was trying to correct all manner of negative publicity long directed at wolves by example."

Huck chimed in, "He liked to call himself 'ze good wolf.'"

"Only," I added, "to become his own worst joke. Getting the proverbial last laugh, even!"

Which had the couple asking what had become of Loopy of late, to which I noted that he had become one with a SCUBA-diving crew led by Peter Potamus. "You may have seen their videos," Huckleberry Hound remarked.

"I think I have, on occasion," explained the husband.

To which I mentioned where Loopy had become, along with Hokey Wolf and Mildew Wolf, "breakout" stars of the diving world, even with their own diving escapades. "As well as Loopy's somewhat cheeky nephew, Bon-Bon," added I, "and Hokey's stepson, Ding-a-Ling."

The wife of the pair was somewhat stunned.

But none the more so when "ze good wolf" "himself," Loopy De Loop, turned up in his trademark tuque and scarf, forever trying to look a little sophisticated for a wolf originally from the Saugenay-Lac-St.-Jean region of Quebec. And even Huckleberry Hound was quite surprised when such a crazy lupine sat himself down close to us, the Canadian visitors not even being scared at such a presence.

"So who did you expect exactly, Mildew Wolf?" was how Loopy made himself known. "Anyhow, care for a poutine party later on at my beach house?"

"Not a bad idea, Loopy" was how Huck replied.

"Likewise," replied I.

"The reason I decided to so invite you," Loopy remarked, "was for the sake of inviting you to join our motley little lupine diving company over spring break."

"And let me guess," asked I, "down in the Keys."

"However did you know?" was how Loopy rejoindered.

After shrugging our shoulders in suggesting that the guess was just dumb luck, Huck and I were glad to accept the invite. For which more will be laid on in the next such missive.

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[beloveddawn-blog]

Oh Canada

Our home and native land

True patriot love

In all thy sons command (In all of us command)

With glowing hearts we see thee rise

The true North strong and free

From far and wide, O Canada

We stand on guard for thee

God keep our land

Glorius and free

O Canada we stand on guard for thee

O Canada we stand on guard for thee

oh canada our true and somthing land, true patiort love in all our sons comand somthing hearts somthing aomthing i havnr sung this since highschool sorry

OOOOOO CANADAAAAAAAAA

[kenwhytock]

Photo Series: Landscapes: Oh Canada, our home on native land… by Ken Whytock Via Flickr: February 2023 Southwestern/southcentral Ontario Journal: It's just right...

[beardedohdaddy]

Oh Canada. Our home and native land

[haruhar-u]

ALL I REMEMBER IS “OH CANADA OUR HOME AND NATIVE LAND”